Strengthening copyright includes protection from piracy
Newman 01 [Jon O. Newman, senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, “UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., Paramount Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Tristar Pictures, Inc., Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P., Disney Enterprises Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Eric CORLEY, also known as Emmanuel Goldstein, and 2600 Enterprises Inc., Defendants-Appellants, United States of America, Intervenor.”, Docket No. 00-9185, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Argued: May 1, 2001, Finally Submitted: May 30, 2001, Decided: November 28, 2001, //zrubin]
This appeal concerns the anti-trafficking provisions of the DMCA, which Congress enacted in 1998 to strengthen copyright protection in the digital age. Fearful that the ease with which pirates could copy and distribute a copyrightable work in digital form was overwhelming the capacity of conventional copyright enforcement to find and enjoin unlawfully copied material, Congress sought to combat copyright piracy in its earlier stages, before the work was even copied. The DMCA therefore backed with legal sanctions the efforts of copyright owners to protect their works from piracy behind digital walls such as encryption codes or password protections.